Metascore
45 out of 100

Mixed or average reviews - based on 35 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 11 out of 35
  2. Negative: 10 out of 35
  1. One of the best American films of the year so far.
  2. Not everything jells, but Click is funnier and more elaborately clever than anything Sandler's done in years.
  3. 80
    This comic fantasy is the best vehicle he's (Sandler) ever had, a high-concept goof that gradually darkens into an emotional nightmare reminiscent of Capra.
  4. 75
    There are times when the comedian falls back on his typical shtick, but the film doesn't shy away from the darkness inherent in this kind of story, and it has a heart.
  5. Last week, the American Film Institute named "It's a Wonderful Life" the most inspiring movie in the history of the English language. The film was initially a flop, but it's now considered so perfect that nobody would dare remake it - under that title. Folks who see Click will have no trouble connecting the dots.
  6. The movie is gag-filled, as you would expect of a Sandler movie, but the filmmakers realize they have hit upon an idea that is both clever and good, so they edge their comedy into some darker areas of human behavior.
  7. Reviewed by: Dana Stevens
    70
    Click manages to sneak some surprisingly moving moments in between the gross-out gags and the schmaltzy resolutions.
  8. 67
    An unsteady mishmash of snot-nosed humor and treacly Hollywood sentimentality.
  9. The emotions seem genuine enough, even if Sandler is not a talented-enough actor to always pull them all off.
  10. A near-saving grace is Christopher Walken, perfectly cast as the creepy store clerk who gives Michael the magic remote, then follows him through life like a gleefully incompetent guardian angel.
  11. Reviewed by: Ty Burr
    63
    If it doesn't quite represent the new, improved Adam Sandler, it shows him almost desperately trying to figure out who that might be.
  12. Reviewed by: Sam Toy
    60
    Another 'nice' Sandler comedy that works, thanks to some smart and genuinely moving ideas at its core.
  13. 60
    After an hour of predictably sophomoric antics involving foulmouthed kids, compulsively self-pleasuring canines and the rampant objectification of women, Click turns into a surrealist death dream in which Sandler's masochistic impulses flower onscreen as never before.
  14. De rigueur hypocritical as it may be coming from Hollywood, Click is a cultural critique, with the dull blade and impact of a battle-ax... But it's a farce about loss, and it doesn't flinch.
  15. Reviewed by: David Ansen
    60
    As a moral fable Click holds no surprises; as a Sandler comedy, it's unusually dark, occasionally touching and pretty funny.
  16. 50
    It's not just sad, it's brutal. There's an undercurrent of cold, detached cruelty in the way Michael uses the magical device.
  17. 50
    A sporadically funny, always predictable, weirdly downbeat fantasy.
  18. 50
    An uneasy mix of frat-boy yocks and "Twilight Zone"-style science-fiction.
  19. Reviewed by: Claudia Puig
    50
    Despite its ultra-formulaic premise and juvenile sense of humor, there are a few laughs, and the movie's heart is generally in the right place, with the notable exception of racist characterizations of an Arab prince and Japanese businessmen.
  20. The only effect is to produce that most commonplace of Hollywood paradoxes -- a mood simultaneously frantic and listless.
  21. At times dark and at other times gooey.
  22. 50
    Charlie Kaufman could have made a great movie out of Click, a soupy existential comedy about a "universal remote" that lets a man magically rewind, fast-forward, and pause his life.
  23. 40
    The problem with Sandler's latest movies is that he now feels the need to inject some sort of dramatic conflict in order to complete his character's shallow story arc of maturation/redemption. Introducing such mawkish sentimentality causes the humor level in his films, never that elevated to begin with, to sink like America's credibility overseas.
  24. 40
    I don't think any of it really hangs together as anything resembling drama, or that Michael is ever a remotely likable character, before or after his day of reckoning. But Adam Sandler didn't get where he is today by making movies for me and Roger Ebert to like.
  25. Reviewed by: Justin Chang
    40
    Adam Sandler's recent low-key phase continues with this cleverly conceived but conspicuously unfunny comedy.
  26. Reviewed by: Michael Phillips
    38
    Aside from influences such as "A Christmas Carol" and "It's a Wonderful Life," Click is so much like the Jim Carrey vehicle "Bruce Almighty"--Steve Koren and Mark O'Keefe worked on both--the writers could sue themselves for plagiarism and then write a screenplay about it.
  27. 38
    Rarely have I wanted to fast-forward through a movie as much as Click, a treacly and not-funny-enough Adam Sandler comedy.
  28. If the moral of Click is a stop-and-smell-the-roses bromide about how family comes first, the real message of this sappy, potty-mouthed seriocomedy is that a steady diet of Drakes and Hostesses will do you no good.
  29. 30
    Sandler is a post-Catskills goldmine of potential, he always has been, and when he's willing to break with tradition (a là Punch Drunk Love), he's downright revelatory. Not this time, though. This time he's just dying.
  30. Following the lead tendered by the credited screenwriters, Steve Koren and Mark O'Keefe, the director Frank Coraci struggles to push the character toward the kind of age-appropriate complexity lost on Mr. Sandler, forgetting that his star only works when, as all those ponderous bosoms suggest, he's un-weaned.
  31. 25
    Can no one save the talented Sandler from himself? I hate this movie. Click. I hate this movie. Click. I hate this movie. Click.
  32. Reviewed by: Nicole Schmuelien
    25
    Click is yet another uninspired Adam Sandler goof-fest with a long suffering leading lady, mildly bawdy gags--see Joe Schomo oogle female jogger--and a predictable ending.
  33. It's an unimaginative, mean-spirited affair that makes you hate yourself for laughing at it, and it's so devoid of anything close to wit, subtlety or sophistication that it stands as damning evidence that Hollywood has surrendered wholesale to stupidity and crassness.
  34. A crass physical comedy of unrelenting irrelevance with a gag or two amid the many other examples of bad taste, extrapolating toward infinite on the theme of remote control reality.
User Score

Generally favorable reviews- based on 158 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 38 out of 57
  2. Negative: 13 out of 57
  1. A fantastic movie that made me and my brother cry! One of the best Adam Sandler movies ever made! This movie made me like Adam Sandler as an actor! coool! Full Review »
  2. Rachael
    10
    My boyfriend and I went to see it at the cinema. He's just like the guy.. never grasping those happy times, thinking everything is about his job. Whilst watching it, I couldn't help but cry near the end. It was beautifully breath taking. Maybe some people could learn from his mistakes & change their life. Realize the importance of family & their relationship, rather than a promotion at work. Simply amazing...I will definately be buying it. Full Review »
  3. First off, It was far too long for my taste. It felt rather dragged on imo. Second, A lot of wasted potential here. It started off interesting but it just became straight up trash. The last 2/3 of the film werent even funny, It was just depressing. I didnt like this film. Full Review »